I have a dream: By State Mygalomorph Guide

cacoseraph · I have a dream: By State Mygalomorph Guide

i am seriously considering making a go at having a by state guide to all the mygs in the USA (similar to what i did to Shelley's scolopendromorph stuff. i have done a few states (CA, WA, NC) to a limited extent already and feel like it is possible but would be a lot of work

i would be willing to work on the non-theraphosidae part... i just don't have as much interest in taras.... and my gods, it would be GRUELING!

i am making a matrix of all the species in the USA according to Platnick 9.5 by the states. i might actually think about doing a database on my website so that users can hash info multiple ways

in no way am i going for a complete rigorous workup... i basically intend to google my red eyes out and come up with a reasonable approximation. i am thinking of possibly making Family and maaaybe genus level maps... but that is a ton of work =P

anyhow, if anyone was willing to help out i would definitely give credit where credit is due... i don't really have enough worked out to know exactly what i would want help with, yet, though =P

Bastian Drolshagen

hey,
drop me a mail, I´m going to send you the data on Dipluridae and some Mecicobothriidae Wink

cacoseraph

my eyes hurt

http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/forum68.php

it is actually going pretty good. balam helped out a bit, too

now i am debating whether to announce it to the other forums now or wait until it is a bit more complete

i think when i announce it i am going to have a link to the index page for the state lists on the scabies forum and a link to a BIG ol' table i am going to generate off of a spreadsheet i am concurrently making that i am going to host on my website (i need to get more traffic =P )

cacoseraph

three or four hours of sleep and once more into the fray!

i am getting really excited about this. obviously it is not rigorous at all... but i have never seen anything done like it before

once i am a bit more confident we have gleaned 97+% of the info from the net i can start making cludged maps for Family, genus, and maybe even species

thank the gods for wiki commons maps i can download and alter Smile

cacoseraph

alrighty, i would say version 1.0 is done Smile

Ronin

caco - your efforts & the information you are sharing are very much appreciated.

cacoseraph

thanks

i figure stuff like this is a good hook to get more ppl to see the forum

plus, afaik we are the only club to do ~public service announcements